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The Fifth Dimension is an American Popular Music Vocal Group , whose repertoire also includes R&B, Soul, and Jazz, best-known during the late 1960s and 1970s for popularizing hits of songwriters like Jimmy Webb , Laura Nyro , Burt Bacharach , Ashford & Simpson , and others, and helping to popularize " Flower Power " music with both white and black Middle-class Americans.Before they were called The Fifth Dimension,they originally called themselves The Versatiles.A picture of them from those days appeared on the back of their album Living Together,Growing Together. The five singing members are Billy Davis, Jr. , Florence LaRue , Marilyn McCoo , Lamonte McLemore , and Ron Townson . Ron Townson died of a diabetes-related illness in 2000. They have recorded for several different labels over their long career.They have recorded for Soul City(started by Imperial Records / United Artists Records recording artist Johnny Rivers strictly for their records even though he would later restart the label for his own use when he later recorded for Epic Records & Atlantic Records ) Bell Records , ABC Records & Motown Records Some of their most famous Hit s include:
Some of the songwriters popularised by The 5th Dimension later went on to Careers of their own, especially Ashford & Simpson . The group is also notable for having more success with the songs of Laura Nyro than Nyro did herself, particularly in the case of "Wedding Bell Blues," "Stoned Soul Picnic," and "Save The Country." McCoo and Davis gained later fame under their own names, and had some success singing as a duo after leaving the group in 1975, including the #1 hit "You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)." The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall Of Fame in 2002 . DISCOGRAPHY
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